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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved, March 27th, 1874.

CHAPTER 109.
AN ACT to authorize the Clerk of the County
Commissioners for Somerset county to adminis-
ter oaths in certain cases.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the	To administer
Clerk of the County Commissioners for Somerset	oaths.
county, to administer the oaths, and take the probates
of all public accounts presented to said Commission-
ers for allowance, in the same manner, and to the
same effect and extent as probates are now made be-
fore justices of the peace for said county.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after the first day of April next.	In force
Approved, March 26th, 1874.

CHAPTER 110.

AN ACT to extend an act entitled "an act to incor-
porate the New York Mining Company, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and forty-
four, chapter two hundred and twenty, and the
supplement thereto, passed at December session
eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter one hun-
dred and twenty-three; and the act to alter and
amend the said original act of incorporation and
supplement thereto, passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter sev-
enty," for the period of thirty years.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the act entitled " an act to incorpo-